currency and demand deposits—an aggregate commonly known as M1—were equal to $71.7 billion.

In that same year, M2—an aggregate equal to M1 plus savings deposits, small time deposits, and money market mutual funds—was $153.6 billion.

According to the CBI, the country's liquidity amounted to some $174 billion by April 2008,[47] $197 billion by October 2009.[48] and over $300 billion in 2011.[49] Estimates put the amount of capital floating in Iran's market at $254 billion in 2012.[50]